I'm back after a long long time without login into this forum, now I installed Slackware 13.37 on my Acer (Aspire 5349), everything works greatly except for the WiFi card which is giving me a lot of problem to get it working.

I've tried almost everything i have found on the internet..including installing NdisWrapper, Compat-wireless(or something like that)..

Now am connected using a Linux Mint LiveCD :(, when i use lspci the devices are there..when i install ndiswrapper it works ok and it gives me the "driver installed, device present" message, but when i try to load the ndiswrapper module it says:"FATAL: ndiswrapper module not found".

I installed Wicd the version that comes with the SlackDVD and the latest one, i tried changing the wireless interface to "lo" to "wlan0", changing the driver from "wext" to "ndiswrapper" nothing worked.

If i make a "iwconfig wlan0" it says somethign like: "Error fetching the correct device", if i make a "ifconfig" it says:

lo no wireless extensions

eth0 no wireless extensions

please help me!! :( am getting desperated and i don't want to change to any other linux distribution, because Slackware is THE ONE I LIKE!

cheers..
NaTTaN

onebuck

09-08-2012 08:44 AM

Member Response

Hi,

What do you see with 'ifconfig -a'? The '-a' option will show all interfaces, even the ones that are down.

I would think the new kernel series will get additional devices. Your device code is: Device e047

I was thinking the AR9485 was compatible with the AR9285. New kernel work for the AR9485 is on going in 3.4.x. You could try ndiswrapper and the MSWindows/7/Xp driver until the ath9k driver & firmware are available.

A side note: Please use vbcode tags for quote, data, long list or code to make your post cleaner therefore easier to read.

NaTTaN

09-09-2012 08:36 PM

well, i'll try to patch my kernel then and see if it works.....but it continues to be weird for me that i can't enable the wlan0 interface.

ath9k_hw is for addition of the new devices to be handled by the module ath9k. All the lists still do not show 'e047' device yet. So until that part of the driver is made available your device will not be handled.

NaTTaN

09-10-2012 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onebuck
(Post 4776766)

Hi,

ath9k_hw is for addition of the new devices to be handled by the module ath9k. All the lists still do not show 'e047' device yet. So until that part of the driver is made available your device will not be handled.

Can you please explain me a little bit what do you mean when you say device code?

Another thing, I discovered that the 'ath9k' and also the 'atl1c and the 'atl1e' modules are not being loaded when the system starts, so i want to know if it is ok if a edit the '/etc/modprobe.d' which is in fact empty..

thanks again
NaTTaN

onebuck

09-11-2012 08:26 AM

Member Response

Hi,

'device code' is a unique manufacture ID assigned for each device.

You can edit it but if the driver ath9k does not support Atheros AR9485 device ID 'e047' then the possibility of working is nil.

Linux Wireless wiki is a good source to get drivers and to see if a particular device is supported.

Quote:

Linux Wireless wiki 'This is the main source of Documentation for the Linux wireless (IEEE-802.11) subsystem. This wiki features information for end-users, developers and vendors. This site covers all the new 802.11 drivers, the new core mac80211 and cfg80211 components along with the new userspace and in-kernel nl80211 configuration interface. New nl80211 userspace applications are also documented.'

onebuck

09-11-2012 09:16 AM

Member Response

Hi,

Some additional information to identify hardware;

Quote:

pci.ids file <- 'List of PCI ID's to be placed in '/usr/share/pci.ids'. You should update your distribution id's periodically if you change pci devices with newer ones or the distributions 'pc.ids' are dated. If you have 'pciutils' installed then use 'update-pciids' script.

NaTTaN

09-12-2012 08:01 AM

Thanks for answering my questions, am still dealing with the Atheros card problem, which is weird about this problem is that the Ethernet card works perfectly and now my problem got even worst as I can't turn my 'wlan0' interface up, also the 'ath9k' driver is not being loaded....the atl1c and atl1e drivers are loaded, but this ones are used by the Ethernet card.

So now I want to edit my 'modprobe.d' script/configuration file, so that it loads the ath9k and ath5k drivers but i don't want to make any stupid mistake and ruin everything, so is there any tutorial/guide/video that show how to do that?

thanks for taking time to read my post,
NaTTaN

NaTTaN

09-12-2012 08:15 AM

Having problems to enable the wlan0 network interface

Hi, I'm new to this forum and am trying to solve some problems with my wireless conection, i have Slackware 13.37, on an Acer Aspire 5349 laptop, i have some problems with my wifi card which an Atheros AR9485.

I've found some answers to my questions in this forum, thanks to the people who answered them, as i was reading and looking for information using google i found some tutorials and advices.

I found a page where someone said the only thing he had to do to have wifi working was to enable the 'wlan0' network interface and configure wicd to use it, but for some reason i don't know i get and error message.

But when i type:

/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 wlan0_start

But it doesn't seem to work even though i don't get any error message.

Configuring your network in Slackware is Alien_Bob's excellent article on the way network cards & wireless are configured in Slackware. Loads of internal reference links for Ethernet & Wireless.

You should revert the blacklisted devices you entered. Wireless & Ethernet are separate devices. Your best bet is to use 'ndiswrapper' and the MS drivers for Xp/7 until the Atheros AR9485 device ID 'e047' is available. Kernel 3.4 & series 3.5 seem to be working on the 'ath9k' to include newer devices.

Alien Bob

09-12-2012 08:59 AM

If you are using "/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 wlan0_start" then you may want to start with procviding more information about how you configured "/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf" file.
What does "iwconfig" command show? Is your card detected at all?

If you want to use wicd you are not on the right track by using the "/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1" script. Those are two separate methods in Slackware to configure your network ...